Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 85 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 -36 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,142 1,782 2,787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 3.32% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.67% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 774 984 2,196
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £95,938 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £105,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,482 48,584 49,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.16% 90.44% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,500 23,705 37,321
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,060 £77,500 +10.71% 1,204
London +9 602 £85,000 - 234
Work from Home -26 487 £75,000 +7.14% 645
UK excluding London -90 478 £70,000 +7.69% 1,115
North of England -27 213 £70,000 +7.69% 217
North West -16 112 £67,500 - 91
South East -109 92 £70,000 +3.70% 342
Yorkshire -21 85 £75,000 +11.11% 89
Midlands -21 59 £75,000 +15.38% 138
South West -60 54 £65,000 - 145
West Midlands +1 35 £72,500 +3.57% 45
East of England -13 29 £80,000 +39.13% 176
Scotland -59 28 £66,000 -5.71% 39
East Midlands -34 22 £77,500 +19.23% 87
North East -6 16 £67,500 +28.57% 37
Wales -11 4 £55,916 +11.83% 66
Northern Ireland -16 3 - - 27
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.01%) Apache
4 23 (2.01%) Confluence
5 13 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.88%) JBoss
7 9 (0.79%) Appian
8 8 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.61%) CMS
10 5 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.44%) nginx
11 4 (0.35%) IIS
12 3 (0.26%) Liferay
12 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.088%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.088%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.088%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (1.84%) Maya
2 14 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.79%) Endur
2 9 (0.79%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.088%) Actimize
7 1 (0.088%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.088%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.088%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.088%) Quorum
7 1 (0.088%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.088%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 604 (52.89%) AWS
2 551 (48.25%) Azure
3 201 (17.60%) Serverless
4 190 (16.64%) GCP
5 156 (13.66%) SaaS
6 120 (10.51%) GitHub
7 112 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (7.27%) Amazon S3
9 79 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
10 76 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
11 63 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
12 57 (4.99%) PaaS
13 55 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
14 52 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (3.33%) IaaS
17 37 (3.24%) Power Platform
18 34 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.96%) HTTP
2 9 (0.79%) AMQP
3 6 (0.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.26%) Broadband
4 3 (0.26%) Multicast
5 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.18%) SNMP
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.088%) MQTT
6 1 (0.088%) Network Security
6 1 (0.088%) TCAP
6 1 (0.088%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.27%) NoSQL
2 159 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (12.96%) MongoDB
4 126 (11.03%) SQL Server
5 61 (5.34%) DynamoDB
6 56 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 51 (4.47%) MySQL
8 46 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (2.71%) Redis
11 23 (2.01%) Big Data
11 23 (2.01%) Power BI
12 19 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.66%) RDBMS
13 18 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (1.49%) Tableau
15 16 (1.40%) BigQuery
16 15 (1.31%) DB2
17 10 (0.88%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 151 (13.22%) Git
2 115 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.90%) JIRA
4 46 (4.03%) GitLab
5 40 (3.50%) JUnit
6 39 (3.42%) Selenium
7 31 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 28 (2.45%) TeamCity
9 25 (2.19%) Mockito
10 24 (2.10%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.93%) JMeter
12 21 (1.84%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (1.14%) Maven
15 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.96%) Postman
17 9 (0.79%) LoadRunner
18 8 (0.70%) git-flow
19 7 (0.61%) REST Assured
20 6 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 349 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 335 (29.33%) Finance
3 118 (10.33%) Banking
4 108 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.58%) Law
6 68 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 54 (4.73%) Retail
8 47 (4.12%) Games
9 45 (3.94%) Financial Institution
10 39 (3.42%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.63%) French Language
12 29 (2.54%) Dutch Language
12 29 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (2.19%) Back Office
14 24 (2.10%) Billing
14 24 (2.10%) Legal
15 23 (2.01%) Marketing
15 23 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 402 (35.20%) Developer
2 269 (23.56%) Senior
3 234 (20.49%) Architect
4 196 (17.16%) Software Engineer
5 168 (14.71%) Lead
6 114 (9.98%) Solutions Architect
7 99 (8.67%) .NET Developer
8 97 (8.49%) Java Developer
9 94 (8.23%) Senior Developer
10 93 (8.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 66 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (4.99%) Java Engineer
13 55 (4.82%) Lead Developer
14 49 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 43 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 39 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
18 37 (3.24%) Lead Architect
19 35 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
20 33 (2.89%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (26.27%) .NET
2 283 (24.78%) React
3 246 (21.54%) RESTful
4 199 (17.43%) Spring
5 193 (16.90%) REST
6 179 (15.67%) Kafka
7 174 (15.24%) Spring Boot
8 151 (13.22%) Node.js
9 139 (12.17%) AngularJS
10 119 (10.42%) .NET Core
11 92 (8.06%) HTML
12 74 (6.48%) .NET Framework
13 67 (5.87%) ASP.NET
14 65 (5.69%) CSS
15 64 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 58 (5.08%) Middleware
16 58 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
17 52 (4.55%) Entity Framework
18 50 (4.38%) Django
19 48 (4.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 294 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 172 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (11.12%) Enterprise Software
4 95 (8.32%) Product Ownership
5 50 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 46 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (3.15%) Data Structures
8 32 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.71%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.54%) Virtual Team
11 26 (2.28%) Blockchain
12 23 (2.01%) AI Agents
12 23 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.75%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.40%) IoT
14 16 (1.40%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.40%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.12%) Linux
2 19 (1.66%) Windows
3 18 (1.58%) Android
4 9 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.088%) Fedora
7 1 (0.088%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (49.91%) Agile
2 527 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 480 (42.03%) DevOps
4 366 (32.05%) Software Engineering
5 276 (24.17%) Containerisation
5 276 (24.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 246 (21.54%) AI
7 244 (21.37%) Mentoring
8 240 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (18.13%) Event-Driven
10 197 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 188 (16.46%) Computer Science
12 158 (13.84%) Test Automation
13 155 (13.57%) TDD
14 153 (13.40%) Scrum
15 150 (13.13%) Roadmaps
16 142 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
17 129 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
17 129 (11.30%) SDLC
18 124 (10.86%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 386 (33.80%) Java
2 289 (25.31%) C#
3 277 (24.26%) Python
4 271 (23.73%) SQL
5 252 (22.07%) JavaScript
6 209 (18.30%) TypeScript
7 61 (5.34%) Go
8 33 (2.89%) Shell Script
9 30 (2.63%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.10%) C++
10 24 (2.10%) PHP
11 22 (1.93%) C
12 19 (1.66%) Ruby
13 18 (1.58%) Bash
14 14 (1.23%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.05%) Rust
16 11 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.61%) Bicep
17 7 (0.61%) Scala
18 6 (0.53%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 209 (18.30%) Degree
2 137 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 88 (7.71%) Security Cleared
4 65 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 56 (4.90%) Master's Degree
7 48 (4.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (3.94%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 33 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.23%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.79%) PMP
14 8 (0.70%) CISM
14 8 (0.70%) CISSP
15 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.09%) QA
2 22 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.75%) GDPR
4 17 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.96%) IFRS
5 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.96%) SLA
6 9 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 9 (0.79%) NIST
6 9 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.70%) EMIR
7 8 (0.70%) NCSC
8 6 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.44%) WCAG
10 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.26%) SEPA
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
11 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 347 (30.39%) Docker
2 15 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.18%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.088%) HDFS
5 1 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 336 (29.42%) Kubernetes
2 174 (15.24%) Terraform
3 44 (3.85%) Grafana
4 42 (3.68%) Ansible
5 28 (2.45%) Kibana
6 18 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.14%) Argo
9 5 (0.44%) Puppet
10 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.088%) Nagios
Vendors
1 179 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.60%) Oracle
3 32 (2.80%) Google
4 27 (2.36%) Guidewire
5 19 (1.66%) Salesforce
5 19 (1.66%) SAP
5 19 (1.66%) Splunk
6 18 (1.58%) Dynatrace
6 18 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
8 13 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.14%) Software AG
9 12 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.05%) Duck Creek
10 11 (0.96%) IBM
11 10 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 10 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.70%) OpenLink
12 8 (0.70%) Red Hat